Timur Fork (b. 1986) is a Moscow-based artist whose practice grew out of the Russian graffiti scene of the early 2000s. After years painting the city’s walls, a serious fall in 2017 left him with a head injury, hearing loss in one ear, and a long recovery that pushed him to reconsider both his process and the kind of work he wanted to make. That shift led him from the street into the studio, where he began translating the energy of graffiti into a more personal painterly language.

In 2021, Fork found the form that would define his work with Plasticine Wolf, the piece that introduced what he describes as “plasticine realism.” His paintings mimic the texture of hand-molded modeling clay—creased, glossy, fingerprinted, and intensely colored—creating images that feel at once playful and technically exacting. The result sits somewhere between hyperrealism and invention, drawing on the tactility of childhood materials while retaining the force and immediacy of street art.

Since then, Fork has expanded that visual language across both canvas and public walls, with works appearing in cities including Moscow, Barcelona, Paris, and Osaka. His practice now moves fluidly between muralism and studio painting, bringing the instincts of the street into contemporary art without losing their directness, color, or sense of wonder.